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II THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE DATES AND CHRONOLOGY THE CALENDARS There are 367 days in the Aihrdian year. The year is divided into twelve months and one week of celebration and holiday, the Feast of the Unmaking. Each month has thirty days and the Feast seven. Though there are many local and religious holidays, the Feast of the Unmaking is celebrated universally throughout the Cradle of the World as a time of thanksgiving for the destruction of Unklar. CALENDAR RECKONING: The standard calendar year is that of the Millennial Age (as begun by the Dark God Unklar), also called by men the Modern Age. The current year is 1097md. There are, however, four calendars of reckoning, Dwarf, Elf, Aenochian (Olden Year) and Millennial. All campaign dates are given in md. CONVERSION CHART Millennial Age (md): 1 Aenochian (ae): 800 Dwarf Year (df): 12188 Elven Year (ey) 3452 To arrive at the Aenochian Year, add 800 to the present md. For Dwarf year add 12188, and for Elven year 3452. A history will read: In 1029md (13217df; 1729oy; 4252ey) the dwarves of Grundliche Hohle made peace with the 47 clans of gnomes. MONTHS Erstdain (First Month) Spring Regnerisch (Rain) Spring Lothian (named for the god Daladon) Spring Uthdain (named for the god Luther) Spring Feast of the Unmaking (7 days) Falkhyn (named for Jaren Falkynjager) Summer (low) Trocken (Hot) Summer (high) Frostig (End of heat) Autumn Erstfhroe (First Frost) Autumn Lexlicht (Last Light) Autumn Nochturn (Evening) Winter Winterdark Winter Arist (named for the god Aristobulus) Winter THE PEOPLES OF AIHRDE THE FIRST BORN (THOSE OF THE ALL FATHER) TROLLS LANGUAGE: Vulgate; Speak with Animals/Nature, Language of Creation (very old and powerful trolls only). RELIGION: They have no gods but call upon Nulak–kiz–din, their long time master, from time to time. LANDS: Many diverse small tribal lands and a few scattered kingdoms. They are found on almost all continents and in all climes. Their greatest kingdom lies on the edge of the Gottland. LONGEVITY: Immortal. Trolls are huge hulking beasts. Fat an ungainly, their legs seem too small to bare their weight. They have long arms, are thickly muscled and have giant, wide fingers. They have large tusks sprouting from their maws, shorter on the top and longer on the bottoms of their wide mouths. The tusks on the lower jaw continue to grow as a troll gets older and often grow into the creature’s face. They are shaped, cut and sometimes decorated with carvings. Very old trolls have very large, often bent and chipped tusks. They use these tusks in battles against one another, roaring at each other with mouths agape. Though they occasionally try to gore each other, a battle usually ends with the troll with a wider yawn and larger tusks victorious. They are ferocious creatures, bent upon destruction. The trolls of Aihrde evolved from the sentients of old and are the first peoples to walk the world. Trees, bent and evil, whose hearts were twisted long ago, were driven from their forests and into the wilds by their kin. These trees evolved over the millennia and were common enough when the first of the All Father’s children walked the world. In time they became creatures altogether different than their ancestors and they bred and built lands of their own and many forgot their ancestry and cared not for what came before. All trolls share a common longing for the quiets of the deep woods and the gentle sounds of brooks and creeks linger in their minds and can, at times, charm them. When trolls die they return to stone, or some, who are very old root to the world. These latter are called Gottland trees. DWARVES LANGUAGE: Mountain Dwarf, Oceanic Dwarf, Vulgate. RELIGION: Worship the All Father, ancestry, house gods and heroes. Their fallen merge with the firmament. By calling on various heroes and house gods they call that one back from the firmament and gain strength, wisdom etc. LANDS: Grundlich Hohle, Norgorad–Kam, Hoheisenhole and some few scattered kingdoms about the world. LONGEVITY: On average dwarves live about 600 years. Some dwarves live to very old ages, ranging upwards to 900 years. Dwarves were many and varied in the Days before Days, tall and stalwart, thin and limber. But now, the majority of them are short of stature, stout and strong. Their skin is thick and tough, built for extremes of temperature. They sport thick beards, smaller AFTER WINTER’S DARK 11
eyes and full, round faces. They are thick limbed and have wide hands and large feet. They favor deep, full colors such as reds, blues, greens or yellows. They are skilled craftsmen, even in these latter days of the world. They live in patriarchal societies, but the women (beardless) are not subservient, but rather often play a commanding role as the mother’s of kings and great warriors. Dwarves believe that the race’s collective memory is contained the mind’s of their women, and these stalwart lasses are consulted often on deeds that would reflect honor and nobility. The dwarves were created from the All Father’s rage and frustration. He tried to create the creatures of his mind’s eye and could not and he destroyed his hammer upon the anvil in the attempt. In rage he shaped the raw stuff of creation with his hands and thus the first dwarves came to be. They were called “The First Born” for they were the first peoples of the All Father and for they were cast in his image. They scattered across the world and unlike all those who had come before they set to mimicking the All Father and shaping the world to their own desires. In time they grew numerous and built kingdoms far and wide across Aihrde. There were a dozen great kingdoms and these spawned a host of lesser kingdoms. They mostly settled in far western lands of Ethrum, but also in Aenoch and the island kingdoms of Alanti. Their greatest kingdoms were Gorthurag (First Home) and Grausumhart (Grimjaw). Since the end of the Age of Dwarves the dwarves have become scattered. Only a few of the great kingdoms of old remain and only a few of the lesser. They are found most anywhere but are not common to most lands, living rather in small enclaves, towns and villages. Only in the kingdoms of Grundliche Hohle and Norgorad–Kam are there dwarves in great numbers. GIANTS LANGUAGE: Vulgate, most can speak and understand Dwarf. RELIGION: They have no religion generally, being animistic and worshiping house deities and the like. LANDS: Everywhere. LONGEVITY: Different giants have different life spans, but most live 200–400 years. Giants range in look as much as any humans. They are large, being two, three or sometimes four times greater than the average human. Some are crafty such as the fire giants and more dwarf like, others are simple such as the hill and swamp giants. When giants were first fashioned, there were many who were tall and stout. These giants soon split from their kin and moved into distant 12 CASTLES & CRUSADES lands. Most of these did not revere the All Father and as such they were always an impoverished people. In time the giants evolved into different peoples, with different languages, codes and beliefs. Only a few retained the ability to shape the world, and none but the Trotigen giants remembered any of the Language of Creation. And these last were enslaved by Inzae and hauled to that inner world. The giants became numerous and of many breeds. Frost giants settled in the far north, fire giants in the mountain deeps, cloud giants into the islands of air fashioned from their knowledge of the language, not far removed from their kind were the storm giants. The greater number of giants settled in the hills and mountains of stone, in caves, swamps and the like and their breeds have become so great that they are too numerous to count. Most grew to dislike their distant kin and made war upon them when they could so that there has ever been an enmity between dwarf and giant. HUMANS LANGUAGE: Vulgate. RELIGION: Any and all gods. LANDS: Everywhere. LONGEVITY: The average life span is 70 years, though some tribes may have longer life spans (see below). In the early days of the dwarves, when that diverse people began to build kingdoms underground, a great part of them remained beneath the open skies. These peoples, called the Muen, did not take to the teaching of the All Father, but rather divested themselves in the worship of Mordius. They were generally taller, though not as great as their giant kin, nor as stout as their dwarven cousins. They migrated to all corners of the world. Eventually these peoples became numerous and distant from their ancestors and few, if any, realize their origins. The humans lived in far more climes than the dwarves, almost as many as the giants. They were hearty and versatile, adapting to their new homes where ever they lay. Early in their history they divided, moving to different locales and have ever since been associated with 13 tribes, or divisions, of men, six greater and seven lesser, each very different from the other. They all speak their own languages and worship a diverse number of local deities, many of which are creatures of extraordinary power than came to Aihrde in the beginning. It should be noted that many worship the same deities, but the names, faces and religious symbols are different. Further, humans have walked the world almost as long as the dwarves. Each of the Divisions of Men listed below, except the Katha, has had a long history, replete with a variety of different civilizations that have risen and fallen, multiple numbers of political entities, that have warred with each other and others. Of all the humans, only the Aenochians have created an Empire so great that it consumed much of the world, but even their empire never touched all the tribes. These are the 13 Divisions of Men as classified by their race, but this does not mean that those people of a racial group refer to themselves as such. In fact, it would be rare for an Aenochian to call himself an Aenochian, rather they would refer to themselves from their political or religious entities, such as Rhunelander. A native of the Inklu race would call himself by his tribal name or that of his kingdom, not as an Inklu. These classifications, though
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